Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Johnson

Court of Appeals of Texas

Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Johnson

23 S.W. 826, 5 Tex. Civ. App. 15, 1893 Tex. App. LEXIS 524

CourtCourt of Appeals of Texas

DecidedNovember 1, 1893

DocketNo. 901.

StatusPublished

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Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Johnson, 23 S.W. 826, 5 Tex. Civ. App. 15, 1893 Tex. App. LEXIS 524 (Tex. Ct. App. 1893).

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Opinion

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

The bills of exception 1 and 2 show such a flagrant and persistent violation of the rule on the part of counsel in the closing argument as to require that the judgment, by that means in part obtained, be reversed.

The language employed was not only calculated to arouse passion; but counsel made himself a witness before the jury as to matters foreign to the record, and of a damaging character. We are of opinion that the evidence thus imported into the jury box, and emphasized by the vigorous language of counsel, must have had some weight in the decision of the case.

The judgment will therefore be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.

Reversed and remanded.

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STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

The bills of exception 1 and 2 show such a flagrant and persistent violation of the rule on the part of counsel in the closing argument as to require that the judgment, by that means in part obtained, be reversed.

The language employed was not only calculated to arouse passion; but counsel made himself a witness before the jury as to matters foreign to the record, and of a damaging character. We are of opinion that the evidence thus imported into the jury box, and emphasized by the vigorous language of counsel, must have had some weight in the decision of the case.

The judgment will therefore be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.

Reversed and remanded.

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